From left to right: David Gill, first assistant postmaster general William W. Howes, acting postmaster of Los Angeles Mary D. Briggs, and supervisor John Anson Ford having breakfast at the Ambassador Hotel. Howes was visiting Los Angeles to make the principle address at the Jackson Day dinner, held at the Hotel on the evening of January 8, 1938
Postmaster P. P. O'Brien, in his office, holds a poster for the NRA, with a larger poster visible on the desk in front of him. The motto on the poster reads "We do our part."
At right, Harry H. Streshler sits behind his desk and smiles to camera as he holds up an envelope addressed to Santa Claus. The envelope appears to have been rerouted back to Los Angeles. Markings on the envelope read, "Santa Claus, North Pole," "AFTER 5 DAYS, RETURN TO [...] LOS ANGELES, CALIF.," "LOS ANGELES, CALIF NOV 26 12 M 1935," and "BUY U.S. SAVINGS BONDS ASK YOUR [POSTMA]STER." H. H. Streshly rests his elbow to the his desk, which sits at left and stretches straight back. In the background, a map hangs from the wall at left and a door stretches alongside the right edge.
Postmaster P. P. O'Brien points to a memo from the Department of Commerce, dated August 2, 1933, about an employment agreement fro the President of the United States.
Los Angeles Postmaster Henry B. R. Briggs, center, with two other men at the "Savings Bonds Window" of a post office. The two men hold a stack of savings bonds. A sign above them reads: "For Safe Investment of Idle Funds, United States Savings Bonds, $18.75 . . . increases in ten years to . . . . $25.00.....$750.00 . . . increases in ten years to . . $1,000.00." Behind them is the sign for the "Philatelic Window."
Mail-plane pilot Jimmy Carson aboard the Western Air Express airplane. Assistant postmaster J. F. Bourne and an unidentified man are standing on the side of the plane, and the man on the right is handing Jimmy some papers.
Mail-plane pilot Jimmy Carson aboard the Western Air Express airplane. Assistant postmaster J. F. Bourne and an unidentified man are standing on the side of the plane, and the man on the right is handing Jimmy some papers.